Following his breakup, a Japanese college student uses savings from his relationship as a means to quit his summer mowing job, but not without first helping a woman who asks, but doesn't appear to need, for her lawn to be mowed.

A graduate student, on a trip in the Sonoran Desert, contemplates quitting her PhD program and moving on with life.

Throughout her life, a young woman from the future has gathered evidence about her ancestors to understand the way they lived before and during the era when society was reimagined.

Millions of years after the Big Bang, a speck of consciousness in a galaxy wakes up with no sense of self-identity.

After being laid off from his job, a man struggles to find meaning in a utopian world where all of his basic needs are already met for him.

In a world where reboots, people whose digital minds have been downloaded into new bodies, are the lowest class, a living human has a chance to take society down.